Playing with Caustic Lighting

Here are a few images that were created by students in class on April 2, 2009.  In this class students practiced making "caustic lighting" effects using 3D Studio Max and the mental ray renderer.  In these images, students used HDRI reflection maps, created various types of transparent and reflective materials, used lathe modeling and used the noise modifier to make some interesting caustic light effects.  This was a fun class! Great work everybody!